Mozilla, Fedora

[Ted Parks]

Marc,

I appreciate your posting about Mozilla and Firefox. I will give your 
script a try.

Thanks again,
Ted

Marc Schwartz wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:35, Ted Parks wrote:
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>>While I have used Xfce with RedHat and Slackware, I am new to using it 
>>with Fedora Core 1. When I try to launch Mozilla and Mozilla Mail from 
>>Xfce, I get the profile manager. But neither selecting a profile nor 
>>creating a new one allows Mozilla or Mozilla Mail to open--the profile 
>>manager just sits there.
>>
>>Forgive me if this is a frequent problem. Any suggestions?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ted Parks
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>>
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>That is not a problem with xfce, but a known problem with newer versions
>of Mozilla and Firefox. I use FC1 and have the same issue.
>
>If you search the Fedora list archives there are some posts (just
>recently as I recall) as to the use of either alternate RPMS (ie. from
>www.fedora.us) or shell scripts that get around the problem. Some of the
>scripts are for Firefox, but I suspect that they will also work with
>Mozilla. There have also been some posts on the Mozilla lists/forums
>with possible solutions.
>
>One option, which may or may not work for you, is a script that I use
>with Firefox:
>
>#!/bin/sh 
>export FLASH_GTK_LIBRARY=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
>firefox -remote 'ping()' 
>if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then 
>firefox -remote "openURL(${1}, new-window)" &
>else 
>#open new instance 
>firefox $1 & 
>fi
>
>The initial export is something that I picked up from I cannot recall
>where, but has to do with flash performance issues...
>
>Basically, the script checks to see if there is already a Firefox
>instance running. If so, then it uses the '-remote' argument. This gets
>around the profile lock issue.
>
>I put the above script in ~/bin.  Call it whatever you want, set it to
>be executable (chmod +x ScriptFileName) and then use that command to
>execute your browser.
>
>I believe that you can replace 'firefox' with 'mozilla' in the above,
>but I have not tried it. So you may have to do some testing/debugging.
>
>HTH,
>
>Marc Schwartz
>
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